Prior to joining EQT Partners in 2000 Mr Udo Philipp held various positions at BertelsmannSpringer Science and Business Media, where he was Chief Financial Officer, head of corporate development and managing director of the medical publishing division.
 
From 1993 to 1995, Mr Philipp was private secretary to the German Minister of Economics. Prior to that, 1990 to 1993, Mr Philipp worked as a consultant for L.E.K. Consulting and the German government privatisation agency Treuhandanstalt. He started his career in corporate banking with Dresdner Bank.

Mr Philipp graduated with a Masters in economics from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris in 1988.